Lunar Lore with GrannyMoon

 Lunar Lore with GrannyMoon 

 
 Greatly shining,
The Autumn moon floats in the thin sky;
And the fish-ponds shake their backs
And show their dragon scales
As she passes over them.
 – Amy Lowell, “Wind and Silver.”
 A cluster of summer trees,
A bit of the sea,
A pale evening moon.
       – Enshiu, quoted in Kakuzo Okakura, “The Book of Tea”.
When February sun shines cold,
  There comes a day when in the air
The wings of winter slow unfold,
  And show the golden summer there.
       – Philip H. Savage, in the “Old Farmer’s Almanac” for 1901

The moon rising solemnly over the crest
  Of the hills to the east of my station
Displayed her broad disk to the darkening west
  Like a visible new creation.
 – Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary.”

Doth the moon shine that night we play our play?
A calendar, a calendar! Look in the almanac;
find out moonshine, find out moonshine.
– Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” III, i.